Quotes About Spirituality

Both faith and love flow from the heart of God. If you can get hold of both of them, you will have life upon this earth without limitations.

Faith grows and develops in the same ways our physical bodies grow and develop—by eating good food and exercising properly. The food that faith thrives on is the Word of God (1 Peter 2:2; Romans 10:17), and the faith in our hearts is to be exercised through regular use.

sometimes i wonder does god just not care are is he to busy ignoring your prayers

Is it mad to pray for better hallucinations?

It's easy to fall away from the church, no matter the closeness to it in times past. I have done it. So have you. Grown people can do as they please. The 10:30 Sunday morning movie is even an excuse I use. So are Saturday nights that should have ended a lot earlier.

QUESTION AND ANSWER ON THE MOUNTAIN You ask for what reason I stay on the green mountain, I smile, but do not answer, my heart is at leisure. Peach blossom is carried far off by flowing water, Apart, I have heaven and earth in the human world.

VISITING THE TAOIST PRIEST DAI TIANSHAN, BUT NOT FINDING HIM A dog's bark amid the water's sound, Peach blossom that's made thicker by the rain. Deep in the trees, I sometimes see a deer, And at the stream I hear no noonday bell. Wild bamboo divides the green mist, A flying spring hangs from the jasper peak. No-one knows the place to which he's gone, Sadly, I lean on two or three pines.

They would place their hands together inside the circle so that they could walk in each other's dreams. It forged a bond that could not be broken. The circle represents love in eternity. For there is no beginning and no end.

Tell me, do you have family near?" Miss Addie asked. "I'm an orphan," Theta said. "You're wrong." The old woman blinked up at the ceiling, her fingers waving in the air. "You do have family. I see it in your aura. They're… they're all around you.

Why must we die when everything within us was born to live?

St. Bernard said, 'Every word one writes smites the Devil.

So naturally I'm fascinated with the phenomenon of the NDE, of 'going over.

What saves us? he said wryly. You do know the answer, Alix. 'Tis all the things you mentioned to Merwynna, and something else. He looked into her green eyes. So faith, hope, and love abide, these three, but the greatest of these is love. Love saves us? Does it not? Not simply sexual love, but also love of one's fellow man, love of God, love of family and

Regardless of whether we live in the East or the West, whether we are rich or poor, we must find contentment with what God has given.

Greed builds a barrier that keeps us from becoming content with what God has given.

If we don't accept God's portion for us, we will become women with spirits of discontent.

All the hurt, fear, and rejection you have ever felt is what the Lord Jesus felt in the Garden of Gethsemane.

God cares about where your heart is, where your treasure is.

Ella's focus was eternal, and her focus led to an internal contentment.

I encourage you to do this exercise. Do it now. Get out a piece of paper and make your (2) columns. List your husband's faults and as many of your wrong responses as you can think of. You'll be surprised that your responses are as bad or worse than his faults. After you have finished, confess your wrong attitudes to God and burn the paper. Definitely do not show it to your husband. This exercise is for your benefit - to help you get the plank out of your own eye!

God wants us to focus on becoming like Christ, on shaping our character into His image.

You can choose to be free of the love of money. You can be in control of your possessions rather than be controlled by what you have and what you want. It's a secret choice of the heart between God and you.

Perhaps it was the word God that was inviting to me, a word I thought I knew too much about. The one who had tortured Job, who had Abraham lift the ax to his son, who, disguised as a whale, had swallowed Jonah. I know now that the name does not refer to any deity, but means simply to call out and pray, to summon.

Liberty begins with a heart reconciled to God.